We help communities develop organisational and technical capabilities towards self-governance, local economic sovereignty, and ecological stewardship.
By bridging the resources of local governments, philanthropies and organisations with the emergent power of on-the-ground networks, we support the shift from top-down management to community-led regenerative development.
Our Approach
Building a regenerative future is about much more than new technologies or policies—it requires reimagining how communities organise, adapt, and thrive within their local ecosystems.
We focus on three essential capabilities that communities need for regenerative development:
Local Sensemaking
Tools and frameworks for communities to understand their context, map their resources, and envision their own futures.
Collective Governance
Systems that enable communities to make decisions, allocate resources, and manage shared assets.
Economic Sovereignty
Giving communities control over their economic flows and futures, enabling them to direct resources effectively.
COP 30
An opportunity for meaningful change
The first Amazonian COP will be a pivotal moment to demonstrate how empowered local communities can lead regenerative development. With our deep understanding of the Brazilian context, unique approach and established local relationships, we're helping organisations contribute meaningfully to this transition.
Before
Strategic planning
Community partnership development
Project design
Impact assessment framework
During
Local context navigation
Partnership facilitation
Project implementation support
Story capture and documentation
After
Project continuation support
Impact measurement
Knowledge transfer
Scaling successful initiatives
Our Services
Community Activation
We help communities grow their capabilities for self-organisation:
Weaving Networks
We help strengthen the social fabric that makes transformation possible by weaving together community members, aligned organisations, and local leaders.
Understanding the Context
We help communities surface and document the collective knowledge in their culture, lived experienced and place.
Mapping Assets & Needs
We guide communities through participatory mapping processes to understand their assets, needs, and opportunities.
Emergent Strategy
We support communities in imagining possible futures, developing clear visions, and creating adaptive strategies that evolve with changing conditions.
Systems Design & Implementation
We support communities in designing and implementing systems that enable collective choices, fair resource allocation, collective prosperity and shared accountability.
Impact Tracking
Through participatory evaluation frameworks, we help communities develop their own ways of measuring what matters to them, tracking progress, learning from experience, and sharing their stories of transformation.
Capacity Building
Comprehensive training in the frameworks, tools, and practices needed for community-led regeneration:
Our Programs
Bioregioning: New Ecological Institutions
Learn to understand bioregional organising, and how to build alternative institutions that regenerate natural systems while meeting community needs.
Web3 for Local Economic Sovereignty
Discover how web3 technologies are supporting community independence through local currencies, collective asset management, capital allocation, and more.
Toolkit for Regenerative Development
A hands-on journey through the essential methods and tools for community-led transformation, including local activation, systems co-design and implementation.
Custom Programs
Every organisation’s context and needs are unique. We design tailored training programs that blend our core frameworks with your wisdom and specific goals. Programs include hands-on workshops, implementation support, and ongoing mentorship.
Strategic Support
We help organisations align their resources and capabilities with community-led regenerative development:
Grant Proposal Writing
Craft compelling proposals combining engaging narratives with robust impact frameworks to secure funding for your regenerative initiatives while staying true to your vision.
Project Planning and Strategy
Turning vision into reality requires clear pathways forward. We work with organisations to develop comprehensive, actionable plans that balance clear direction with emergent possibilities.
Implementation Support
The journey from concept to reality needs steady guidance. We provide hands-on support throughout implementation, helping navigate challenges, adjust approaches, and maintain momentum.
Workshop Facilitation
We create spaces for meaningful collective engagement through carefully designed participatory processes that develop shared understanding and spark coordinated action.
Stakeholder Outreach
Regenerative development thrives on strong relationships. We help organisations build authentic partnerships with communities, align with key stakeholders, and create networks of mutual support.
Research Dissemination
Every initiative creates valuable knowledge for the wider movement. We help capture insights, document progress, and share stories in ways that inspire action and inform policy.
About Us
We bring together the deep insight of anthropological knowledge and methodologies with the innovative and implementation focussed capacity and resources of the start-up world to support meaningful change in a humanistic and considered way.
Bea Addis
Bea is an anthropologist of environment, futures and technology whose research has focussed on climate governance, blockchain-based climate change start-ups and future imaginaries. She has worked in Brazil, particularly in Belém do Pará, Acre, Amazon and Tocantins since 2021. Before this she had 10 years of experience in the start-up world as an alumni scholar of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation and part of the founding team of several arts, design and environment focussed start-ups.
Andrea Farias
As a designer, Andrea works to create new information landscapes aimed at re-imagining knowledge-creation, decision-making and resource allocation. As a researcher, she aims to understand how emergent technologies and institutional frameworks can transform our society. With a background in the startup and corporate innovation space, Andrea has led projects for clients such as Change.org and Mozilla.
